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PSA - Office 365 Family Plan changed from 1 TB per person upto 6TB to 2 TB of shared storage

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Last Edited by rachaelm | Staff October 12, 2026 at 05:15 PM
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More flexible cloud storage: Your cloud storage allowance will change from 1 TB per person to 2 TB of shared storage so everyone on the plan can use the free space while keeping their own accounts and files private. This change will apply after your first renewal after 2nd May, 2027. Learn more about these upcoming changes.

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yowhatup
10-12-2026 at 04:09 PM.
10-12-2026 at 04:09 PM.
Thank you for posting, got the email today.
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Hat-Trick
10-12-2026 at 04:12 PM.

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10-12-2026 at 04:12 PM.
I got this email from MS today. It can be bad or good, depending on your situation. If you have all 5 M365 licenses in use and they all heavily use OneDrive, this is bad. IF, on the other hand (like my situation) I am the only one in the family really using OneDrive, then I basically got a boost from 1TB to 2TB.

In effect, though, it's basically MS taking back something that we've had since the inception of M365. My question is, what if everyone is heavily using their OneDrive and the sum of all the 1TB users' drives is more than 2TB? After all, MS constantly nags you to back up to OneDrive or move your photos, etc.

Fortunately, I'm good until May 2027, so I'll see if MS back-tracks or not.
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flashesbuck
10-12-2026 at 04:13 PM.
10-12-2026 at 04:13 PM.
Yeah I seen this, not happy about this at all. It looks like I'll be moving everything off of one drive in the future.
I do own and maintain my own nas. Nothing really beet the integration of OneDrive tho
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dauss
10-12-2026 at 05:06 PM.
10-12-2026 at 05:06 PM.
How much more is the subscription going to be? I mean they already raised the prices by a lot to pay for all the new AI features they forced everyone to have
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bubblegoose
10-12-2026 at 05:24 PM.
10-12-2026 at 05:24 PM.
Quote from flashesbuck View quoted comment :
Yeah I seen this, not happy about this at all. It looks like I'll be moving everything off of one drive in the future. I do own and maintain my own nas. Nothing really beet the integration of OneDrive tho
I just set up Nextcloud with Cloudflare to replace OneDrive and it seems pretty good.
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Timless
10-12-2026 at 05:38 PM.
10-12-2026 at 05:38 PM.
This sucks. I do have 6 family members using a lot of storage.
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Timless
10-12-2026 at 05:40 PM.
10-12-2026 at 05:40 PM.
Quote from Hat-Trick View quoted comment :
I got this email from MS today. It can be bad or good, depending on your situation. If you have all 5 M365 licenses in use and they all heavily use OneDrive, this is bad. IF, on the other hand (like my situation) I am the only one in the family really using OneDrive, then I basically got a boost from 1TB to 2TB.

In effect, though, it's basically MS taking back something that we've had since the inception of M365. My question is, what if everyone is heavily using their OneDrive and the sum of all the 1TB users' drives is more than 2TB? After all, MS constantly nags you to back up to OneDrive or move your photos, etc.

Fortunately, I'm good until May 2027, so I'll see if MS back-tracks or not.
I guess they're going to push those "heavy" users to their own accounts.
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Somnambulator
10-12-2026 at 05:52 PM.
10-12-2026 at 05:52 PM.
This is definitely not an upgrade...
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MemorableBike277
10-12-2026 at 06:07 PM.
10-12-2026 at 06:07 PM.
Quote from Timless View quoted comment :
This sucks. I do have 6 family members using a lot of storage.
Same here. Time to find something new I guess. I only bought it for the cheap storage
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Heckler
10-12-2026 at 06:08 PM.
10-12-2026 at 06:08 PM.
Upvoting the thread for notification purposes, but it's a MASSIVE downgrade by M$...

Your family had up to 6TB individually before, but now only gets a mere 2TB of shared now...?

Am I the only one that sees a suit against M$ for breach of service and refund of fees paid?
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armedmetallica
10-12-2026 at 06:43 PM.
10-12-2026 at 06:43 PM.
LOL talk about the problem they helped create causing problems for their other businesses (AI data centers are chewing up storage and memory)
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Lilyly
10-12-2026 at 06:47 PM.
10-12-2026 at 06:47 PM.
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I just set up Nextcloud with Cloudflare to replace OneDrive and it seems pretty good.
for how much? any deal?
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dealnabber
10-12-2026 at 06:49 PM.
10-12-2026 at 06:49 PM.
Beyond ridiculous greed from M$FT. THEY should be proactive in offering a full refund for this as it is a dramatic downgrade from their description when I bought the licenses. Losing two-thirds of your group storage is not cool.

Time to move elsewhere. Not supporting this garbage.
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slickdealer94
10-12-2026 at 07:58 PM.
10-12-2026 at 07:58 PM.
definitely not good for anyone. drives me up a tree when companies cut a benefit and just outright lie about it -- "more flexible" now? come on.

they cut storage by 67%.

bs nonsense.
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